EP0909037A4 - BINARY CONFIGURATION COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION METHOD AND DEVICE - Google Patents

BINARY CONFIGURATION COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION METHOD AND DEVICE

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EP0909037A4
EP0909037A4 EP98909841A EP98909841A EP0909037A4 EP 0909037 A4 EP0909037 A4 EP 0909037A4 EP 98909841 A EP98909841 A EP 98909841A EP 98909841 A EP98909841 A EP 98909841A EP 0909037 A4 EP0909037 A4 EP 0909037A4
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compressing
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English (en)
French (fr)
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EP0909037A1 (en
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Masahiro Ishida
Takahiro Yamaguchi
Marco Tilgner
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Advantest Corp
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01R—MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES; MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES
    • G01R31/00—Arrangements for testing electric properties; Arrangements for locating electric faults; Arrangements for electrical testing characterised by what is being tested not provided for elsewhere
    • G01R31/28—Testing of electronic circuits, e.g. by signal tracer
    • G01R31/317—Testing of digital circuits
    • G01R31/3181—Functional testing
    • G01R31/3183—Generation of test inputs, e.g. test vectors, patterns or sequences
    • G01R31/318335—Test pattern compression or decompression
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03M—CODING; DECODING; CODE CONVERSION IN GENERAL
    • H03M7/00—Conversion of a code where information is represented by a given sequence or number of digits to a code where the same, similar or subset of information is represented by a different sequence or number of digits
    • H03M7/30—Compression; Expansion; Suppression of unnecessary data, e.g. redundancy reduction
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01R—MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES; MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES
    • G01R31/00—Arrangements for testing electric properties; Arrangements for locating electric faults; Arrangements for electrical testing characterised by what is being tested not provided for elsewhere
    • G01R31/28—Testing of electronic circuits, e.g. by signal tracer
    • G01R31/317—Testing of digital circuits
    • G01R31/3181—Functional testing
    • G01R31/3183—Generation of test inputs, e.g. test vectors, patterns or sequences
    • G01R31/318307—Generation of test inputs, e.g. test vectors, patterns or sequences computer-aided, e.g. automatic test program generator [ATPG], program translations, test program debugging
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01R—MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES; MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES
    • G01R31/00—Arrangements for testing electric properties; Arrangements for locating electric faults; Arrangements for electrical testing characterised by what is being tested not provided for elsewhere
    • G01R31/28—Testing of electronic circuits, e.g. by signal tracer
    • G01R31/317—Testing of digital circuits
    • G01R31/3181—Functional testing
    • G01R31/3183—Generation of test inputs, e.g. test vectors, patterns or sequences
    • G01R31/318371—Methodologies therefor, e.g. algorithms, procedures
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06T—IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
    • G06T9/00—Image coding
    • G06T9/005—Statistical coding, e.g. Huffman, run length coding
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03M—CODING; DECODING; CODE CONVERSION IN GENERAL
    • H03M7/00—Conversion of a code where information is represented by a given sequence or number of digits to a code where the same, similar or subset of information is represented by a different sequence or number of digits
    • H03M7/30—Compression; Expansion; Suppression of unnecessary data, e.g. redundancy reduction
    • H03M7/3084—Compression; Expansion; Suppression of unnecessary data, e.g. redundancy reduction using adaptive string matching, e.g. the Lempel-Ziv method
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03M—CODING; DECODING; CODE CONVERSION IN GENERAL
    • H03M7/00—Conversion of a code where information is represented by a given sequence or number of digits to a code where the same, similar or subset of information is represented by a different sequence or number of digits
    • H03M7/30—Compression; Expansion; Suppression of unnecessary data, e.g. redundancy reduction
    • H03M7/3084—Compression; Expansion; Suppression of unnecessary data, e.g. redundancy reduction using adaptive string matching, e.g. the Lempel-Ziv method
    • H03M7/3088—Compression; Expansion; Suppression of unnecessary data, e.g. redundancy reduction using adaptive string matching, e.g. the Lempel-Ziv method employing the use of a dictionary, e.g. LZ78
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03M—CODING; DECODING; CODE CONVERSION IN GENERAL
    • H03M7/00—Conversion of a code where information is represented by a given sequence or number of digits to a code where the same, similar or subset of information is represented by a different sequence or number of digits
    • H03M7/30—Compression; Expansion; Suppression of unnecessary data, e.g. redundancy reduction
    • H03M7/40—Conversion to or from variable length codes, e.g. Shannon-Fano code, Huffman code, Morse code
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03M—CODING; DECODING; CODE CONVERSION IN GENERAL
    • H03M7/00—Conversion of a code where information is represented by a given sequence or number of digits to a code where the same, similar or subset of information is represented by a different sequence or number of digits
    • H03M7/30—Compression; Expansion; Suppression of unnecessary data, e.g. redundancy reduction
    • H03M7/46—Conversion to or from run-length codes, i.e. by representing the number of consecutive digits, or groups of digits, of the same kind by a code word and a digit indicative of that kind

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Theoretical Computer Science (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Multimedia (AREA)
  • Computer Hardware Design (AREA)
  • Compression, Expansion, Code Conversion, And Decoders (AREA)
  • Tests Of Electronic Circuits (AREA)
EP98909841A 1997-03-24 1998-03-24 BINARY CONFIGURATION COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION METHOD AND DEVICE Withdrawn EP0909037A4 (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (5)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
JP9022597 1997-03-24
JP7029397 1997-03-24
JP90225/97 1997-03-24
JP70293/97 1997-03-24
PCT/JP1998/001273 WO1998043359A1 (fr) 1997-03-24 1998-03-24 Procede et dispositif de compression et de decompression de configuration binaire

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EP0909037A1 EP0909037A1 (en) 1999-04-14
EP0909037A4 true EP0909037A4 (en) 2000-11-22

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EP (1) EP0909037A4 (ja)
JP (1) JP3377217B2 (ja)
KR (1) KR100341211B1 (ja)
IL (1) IL127063A0 (ja)
TW (1) TW358165B (ja)
WO (1) WO1998043359A1 (ja)

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WO1998043359A1 (fr) 1998-10-01
EP0909037A1 (en) 1999-04-14
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